浙江省2003年1月高教等育自学考试高级英语试题课程代码00600.docVIP

浙江省2003年1月高等教育自学考试 高级英语试题 课程代码：00600 I. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks followed by a list of words and expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. (0.5 point for each. 12 points) 1. Women have not even reached the level of 1 that blacks are reaching. No women sit on the Supreme Court. Only two have held Cabinet 2 , and none do 3 . Only two women hold ambassadorial rank. But women 4 in the lower-paying, menial, unrewarding, dead-end jobs, and when they do 5 better positions, they are 6 paid less than a man for the same job. 2. The satisfaction of killing time and of affording some 7 , however modest, for ambition, belongs to most work, and is 8 to make even a man whose work is dull happier 9 than a man who has no work at all. But when work is interesting, it is capable of giving satisfaction of a far higher  10  than mere relief from 11 . The kinds of work in which there is some interest may be arranged in a 12 . I shall begin with those which are only mildly interesting and end with those that are worthy to absorb the whole energies of a great man. 3. A grocer used to be very 13 about his cheese. Cheddar was made and 14 by hundreds of little factories. Representatives of the factories had 15 customers, and cheese was 16 by hand to suit the grocers, who knew precisely what their 17 wanted. Some liked them 18 ; some liked them yellower; some liked anise seed in cheese, or caraway. 4. It has been 19 that the youth of America has been in the vanguard of the discovery of both the disease and the 20 . The various escapist movements, however, have committed the gross error of assuming that original sin 21 their elders, their rulers, and that they themselves could manifest their essential 22 by building little